by chance anybody into visual computing here?

[weatherman]

Hi, could anybody suggest me good universities where to get a master in visual computing? For know I know it's offered in Saarbrücken (Germany) and in Zürich (Switzerland). I'm mainly interested in Europe/North America, but also any other place would be interesting. Thanks in advance.

ps: I'm not the completely sure if this kind of question is allowed in this forum, but since this is the only truly international forum I know of, I thought I'd try :)

[Brunellus]

what is visual computing?

[Alpha_toxic]

Do you mean visual like in "visual C++", "Visual Basic", "Visual whatever_else"?
If so, then just grab a good book and find someone who is willing to help you when you get stuck somewhere. If you are good at some other type of programing (low-level, algorithms, OOP...) you don't need to go to university just for the "visual" part...

P.S. At my university "visual programing" is not even in the main courses. It's sth that you can choose to study or not.

[Stormy Eyes]

what is visual computing?

Does it involve pornography?

[Brunellus]

Does it involve pornography?
I thought it involved vi or vim.

[weatherman]

:mrgreen: well I guess you could do some interesting stuff with pictures of nude women but usually it's a bit less exciting...from the site of the eth zürich:


Methodologically, Visual Computing is routed in computer graphics, algorithmic geometry, image processing and computer vision as well as machine learning.

eth zürich: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/education/programs/tiered/master/spec_tracks/visual_comp
I also heard that at ucla (california) there's a good image processing research group ( http://www.math.ucla.edu/~imagers/ ) but I don't think ucla offers a course which focuses just on these topics.

[weatherman]

up... I hope one bumper is allowed here :p

[hesee]

So, image processing, video processing, machine vision, that sort of things? I'm almost graduated from University of Oulu. It's in northern part of Finland (where the polar bears live ;) ). I took some basic image/video processing courses (although i'm more focused on telecommunications). But they got some more advanced courses:

http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvg/mvg.php?page=teaching

and some kind of research group also:

http://www.mediateam.oulu.fi/?lang=en